OLE Problem

[Chris via AccessMonster.com]

I know just enough about Access to get into trouble, so sorry if this is a
dumb question. My school is using a program to save pic id with name and id
number to create badges. I was asked to see if there was a way to pull the
information so that it could be viewed as a report. This report would show
more than one picture and name on a page. This is where I am having a
problem because the program is saving the image in the database. When I try
to access the database to make the report it shows a blank space for the
image but doesn't display. Instead it gives the following error......

a problem occurred while microsoft access was communicating with the ole
server or active x control

I am not sure what to do or if there is anything I can do since I have never
stored images in this fashion.

Thanks

 

[bob]

If you open the table that contains the field that holds the image, what do you see displayed in the field
? (probably something like "MS Photo Editor Object", "Bitmap", "Package", "Long Binary Data", "MS Paint
Object")

 

[Chris via AccessMonster.com]

It is stored in the Long binary. It is better to store the images outside
the database?